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| Rashida Tlaib is first Palestinian-American elected to Congress | |
| 2018-11-07 | |
| [IsraelTimes] Tlaib runs unopposed in Michigan’s 13th district; she has said she favors a one-state solution to the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict and has opposed United States aid to Israel Rashida Tlaib
She will also be one of the first Moslem women in Congress, along with Ilhan Omar, who is expected to win in Minnesota. Tlaib ran unopposed, but fended off a late write-in challenge from the woman she defeated in the primaries. "The first thing I think about when somebody says you’re going to be the first Moslem is celebrate this moment," she told CBS. "We changed the course of history at a time we thought it was impossible. And that if you just believe, believe in the possibility of someone like me." Republicans, who charge that the Democratic Party has departed from its pro-Israel bona fides point to Tlaib and Omar as proof. Tlaib favors a one-state solution to the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict and has opposed United States aid to Israel. Tlaib, the daughter of Paleostinian im Asked whether she would consider slashing military aid to Israel with Britannia’s Channel 4, Tlaib responded, "Absolutely, if it has something to do with inequality and not access to people having justice. For me, US aid should be leverage. I will be using my position in Congress so that no country, not one, should be able to get aid from the US when they still promote that kind of injustice. "So much is about ’let’s choose a side,’" she continued, opining on the Israeli-Arab conflict. "I am for making sure that every single person there has every right to thrive." In a subsequent interview with In These Times magazine, Tlaib endorsed a one-state solution and supported the free speech rights of BDS activists, who push for Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel. "One state," she said in response to a question about whether she supports a one- or two-state solution. "It has to be one state. Separate but equal does not work. I’m only 42 years old but my teachers were of that generation that marched with Martin Luther King. This whole idea of a two-state solution, it doesn’t work." Omar, a Somalia-born community activist and representative in the State House, is favored to win in November in the 5th District now held by Keith Ellison, who won the DFL primary for state attorney general. DFL is the state’s Democratic Party. Ellison was the first Moslem elected to Congress, in 2006. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 Sit back and wait for the money siphoning to known terrorist entities. Then make the dems defend her. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2018-11-07 19:19 |
| #3 You get the governing party's you vote in. THE ONE YOU DESERVE! The HEIGHT of STUPIDITY. |
| Posted by: ranture 2018-11-07 09:06 |
| #2 and Duncan D. Hunter, even while under indictment, won in my district (CA-50) over Paleo terror offspring Ammar Campa-Najjar |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-11-07 08:45 |
| #1 The Dem's should start a pro Hamas caucus. in addition to Tlaib and Omar, they also have Alexandria O-Cortez and a few more. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2018-11-07 08:34 |